Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth_Token in OAuth signature

2010-01-06 Thread Abraham Williams
oauth_token form table 6-1 is the public part of the access token. You get it by calling http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-oauth-access_token after the user has authorized your application on Twitter. On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:27, Vikram vikram.prav...@gmail.com wrote: I am

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth authentication jquery

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Silva
But how can I made Oauth authentication without exposing my secret key with javascript? I need to make a http request with secret key, or not? 2009/12/31 Phil Plante phil.pla...@endlesspaths.com All that aside, the other problem would be exposing your secret key. I am sure you can imagine how

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Please Help

2010-01-06 Thread ryan alford
You are don't have the parameters in the proper order. The signature goes last. The rest of the parameters must be in order. Put the parameters in order, create the signature, then append the signature to the end or the query string. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Jan 6, 2010 2:05 AM, Vikram

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
This blog post by Anil Dash makes an excellent case for why Twitter should cap the number of followers that a Twitter account can have. It will make life easier for everyone. http://bit.ly/6Al7TU

[twitter-dev] How can we change source name?

2010-01-06 Thread kosmo76
In the code of curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, status=messagesource=CoTweet); using /statuses/update.xml as php curl, if we input CoTweet or Seesmic into the code, a value is entered to the source. However, if we input the name of our application registered to Twitter, a string web is

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth_Token in OAuth signature

2010-01-06 Thread Vikram
So this parameter need not be part of the signature when requesting for Request Tokens right? On Jan 6, 1:27 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: oauth_token form table 6-1 is the public part of the access token. You get it by

[twitter-dev] Search for users near this place?

2010-01-06 Thread Jason
Hi, On twitter you can search for twitter users near a specified place. http://search.twitter.com/advanced Is there a way to tap into this functionality using the search function in the api?

[twitter-dev] 500 Internal Server Error received when trying to make an POST request to /direct_messages/new.xml with data in XML body

2010-01-06 Thread matrixxx
When i try to make an post request to http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml with data in XML Body, i receive the 500 Internal Server Error. The XML body: usersome_user/user textsome_text/text When i send only the user data (without text data), i receive the 400 Bad Request error, this mean

[twitter-dev] Re: Please Help

2010-01-06 Thread Vikram
Thanks Ryan I managed to fix it. The ordering was one issue and my time stamps were getting generated incorrectly. One more question, the Key for HMAC-SHA1 hashing algo required a to be appended to my consumer secret. Why is this required? On Jan 6, 4:08 pm, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com

Re: [twitter-dev] How can we change source name?

2010-01-06 Thread Thomas Woolway
The ability to specify source parameters through basic auth has been deprecated, and is only allowed for apps that used this before deprecation. You'll need to move to using oAuth for authentication, then you can specify the application source on your application page on Twitter.com Tom On Wed,

Re: [twitter-dev] Search for users near this place?

2010-01-06 Thread Raffi Krikorian
the search API has a geocode parameter - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Jason jasonstanle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On twitter you can search for twitter users near a specified place. http://search.twitter.com/advanced Is there

[twitter-dev] Protected statuses don't fetch even when authenticated

2010-01-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser
When fetching a protected status, even if you follow and are followed by that user and authenticate, you still get Sorry, you are not authorized to see this status. This was tested on https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/7432125233.json I don't see an issue for this filed in Google.

[twitter-dev] how do we define 140 characters?

2010-01-06 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi all. a common question we get from developers is how do we count our 140 characters? we recognize it can be hard to figure out in a world of non-ASCII and UTF-8 characters -- you can easily get into situations where you may have two different byte sequences that represent the same thing (e.g.

Re: [twitter-dev] 500 Internal Server Error received when trying to make an POST request to /direct_messages/new.xml with data in XML body

2010-01-06 Thread Mark McBride
We don't support sending XML bodies... you should use form encoding. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:41 AM, matrixxx matrri...@gmail.com wrote: When i try to make an post request to http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml with data in XML Body, i receive the

Re: [twitter-dev] Protected statuses don't fetch even when authenticated

2010-01-06 Thread Mark McBride
I was just able to successfully pull a protected status using a similar URL (different status). What library were you using to access it? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: When fetching a protected status, even if

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth authentication jquery

2010-01-06 Thread Mark McBride
You currently can't. Well, at least not in a standard way. The entity making the request has to know the secret. If that entity is the browser, then it has to know the secret. You might be able to do something with gears or other offline storage I guess. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv

Re: [twitter-dev] Protected statuses don't fetch even when authenticated

2010-01-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser
When fetching a protected status, even if you follow and are followed by that user and authenticate, you still get Sorry, you are not authorized to see this status. This was tested on https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/7432125233.json I was just able to successfully pull a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-06 Thread Josh Roesslein
Not really sure how capping followers would be of much benefit. A better solution might be better garbage collection of inactive or spam accounts. I believe twitter already does this, maybe not the best it could, but there is something in place. Capping the follower limit will hurt users who

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-06 Thread Marcel Molina
That post is a follow up to his argument for why the SUL doesn't represent as much value as some might perceive it to. It's an argument for getting rid of the SUL as it's currently implemented. There are only 500 or so people on the SUL. Non SUL users with as many followers, though rare, likely

[twitter-dev] filter search by country

2010-01-06 Thread WhoItBe
Hi, I'd like to filter the search by country http://search.twitter.com/advanced using this interface. How is this doable? Thanks, - B

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Cache larger social graphs somewhere in API-ready format. Nobody will know or probably care if a 500K social graph is outdated by an hour. On Jan 6, 2:31 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That post is a follow up to his argument for why the SUL doesn't represent as much value as some

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter with Google Visualization

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Denton
Hi Kidd, Many ways to do this depending on a) do you want to store the data somewhere, calculate things, then show the data in a visualization or b) calculate on the fly. One thing you might consider is writing to a google spreadsheet the data you get back from your twitter query. You can use

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-06 Thread Ian Irving
Regardless, the cursor set * request throttle limit should be = the greatest number of followers on Twitter (whether that's a cap, or the current king of Twitter). Anil makes a case for how many of those users are really engaged followers. Fast Company had a piece Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher

[twitter-dev] Check status

2010-01-06 Thread jazzman121
hey! Guys Im sorta new to the twitter API,... in the API is there a way to get notified if a users status has been updated? sorta like a push feature? the only way I know right now is to check every 60 seconds if the account has been updated but that eats thru my rate limited calls... Was

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I am very happy with my small following. If I had even just 1 million followers, I would feel an unbearable pressure to utter something profound at least once every hour. On Jan 6, 12:58 pm, Ian Irving ian.irv...@gmail.com wrote: Regardless, the cursor set * request throttle limit should be =

Re: [twitter-dev] Check status

2010-01-06 Thread Josh Roesslein
You might want to check out the streaming API [1]. It allows you to follow users and recieve their updates. Josh [1] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#follow On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:29 PM, jazzman121 jazzman...@gmail.com wrote: hey! Guys Im sorta new to the twitter

[twitter-dev] SMS Gateway

2010-01-06 Thread Ian
Hello, I am trying to understand how the API functions for interworking for SMS. The inter-working application we will deploy will represent about 1 million users [eventually]. When a user sends a SMS command the inter-working function will proxy the command and send it, via the API to Twitter.

Re: [twitter-dev] Check status

2010-01-06 Thread Abraham Williams
You can also check out: http://gnip.com https://tweethook.com Both services that do push notifications. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 20:01, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: You might want to check out the streaming API [1]. It allows you to follow users and recieve their updates. Josh

[twitter-dev] 502 errors from iPhone application

2010-01-06 Thread Greg Pierce
I'm building an iPhone app with Appcelerator (http:// appcelerator.com), and have run into some problems with OAuth implementation. I'm making calls to request_token, that work fine from a browser (Safari, Firefox) when I test in a static HTML page. When I make essentially the same calls inside

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-06 Thread PJB
Can we please get some confirmation that the cursor-less calls won't be going away this coming Monday? On Dec 22 2009, 4:13 pm, Wilhelm Bierbaum wilh...@twitter.com wrote: We noticed that some clients are still calling social graph methods without cursor parameters. We wanted to take time to

[twitter-dev] Real-time access to protected tweets and DMs

2010-01-06 Thread John A. Debay
I'm one of the software developers behind Twitbit, an iPhone Twitter application (http://twitbitapp.com). We were the first full-featured iPhone Twitter client to support push notifications because we've felt from the beginning that being notified of relevant tweets and DMs in the background was

Re: [twitter-dev] Real-time access to protected tweets and DMs

2010-01-06 Thread John Kalucki
The wheels are already turning. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:12 PM, John A. Debay j...@highorderbit.com wrote: I'm one of the software developers behind Twitbit, an iPhone Twitter application (http://twitbitapp.com). We were the